“With all the romantic vampire stuff going on with The Vampire Diaries and True Blood and Twilight , the most obvious. We thought it would be interesting if, in this atmosphere of the way the vampire is being portrayed right now as a romantic object, under the wire of all that in the culture the real thing moves in next door.

“And the real thing is a killer. Just a predator. It’s the shark from Jaws.

"On the outside it’s a seductive package and it looks like a human being, but it’s just about ripping your throat out and drinking your blood. And introducing that kind of vampire into the current environment.”

Sounds not that bad. Don’t get us wrong, we love True Blood . But an antidote to the airy fairy, romanticised vampire tales that are doing the rounds would be fantastic.

Just a shame it had to be a remake.

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